cylinder pouches???

Gun Butcher · October 10, 2008, 09:42:53 PM

Can anyone help me with this? Did any of the old time cowboys or gunfighters carry extra loaded cylinders for their C&B revolvers and if they did what would they have looked like.
I have probably been looking at them somewhere but they don't seem to be called cylinder pouches so I am not sure. Somebody help me out..... GB

Bow View Haymaker · October 10, 2008, 11:12:48 PM

cableas sells them.

One tiime I saw them listed as carriers for extra ruger 1022 mags. but a CB cylinder fits perfect
Try a ook under holsters and such on the cbela's web sight.

Dalton Masterson · October 11, 2008, 12:06:29 AM

GB, I have the ones that Cabelas sells. They arent bad, and eventually will cut one apart and pattern it. Myself, I havent seen any old pouches for such thing, but that isnt saying much. I am sure they existed, maybe, possibly. DM $:-\$

Major 2 · October 11, 2008, 05:16:35 AM

In another thread on this same subject , I mentioned
A CW issue carbine box remove the cartridge block and replace with a block 3/4" thick, space, drill & glue 3 dowels
upright to hold your (2-3) Cylinders . Dowel size determined by the arbor ...1/4" for Remington
3/8" for Colt.
Mounted Reenactors have used them for years.

Gun Butcher · October 11, 2008, 07:55:46 AM

Thank you all. I was pretty sure that there was such a thing, just never saw them called that in print. I have even built a few as general belt pouches.
Major, thanks for the idea of the dowels to hold them. I was planning on sewing dividers into a pouch but your idea would work great and be much easier.
I wonder why you never hear of them, it would have to make sense that someone carried extras??? It willadd a lot of weight to the gun belt but, especailly in the case of a solider, you would think they would be an essential part of their equipment. Assuming, of course, that they could get their hands on them. GB

knucklehead · October 11, 2008, 10:17:22 AM

not sure about if they had pouches back then or not.
but clint eastwood had spare cylinder pouches on his belt in one of his western movies.
wanna say it was the man with no name movie
toward the end of the movie he actually loaded a new cylinder in his 1858 remie during a break in the gun fight

Major 2 · October 11, 2008, 10:36:10 AM

Pale Rider

knucklehead · October 11, 2008, 03:59:43 PM

Quote from: Major 2 on October 11, 2008, 10:36:10 AM
Pale Rider

just knew i had the wrong movie.....

thanks for the correction

Ned Buckshot · October 24, 2008, 04:51:20 AM

I make a couple of differant versions of cylinder pouches one is stitched to the belt similar in style to what Clint used in Pale Rider. You can see it on page 161 of show us your leather post on the first page of posts.

The other is a slide on like this.

Ned
nedbuckshot@yahoo.com

Ned Buckshot · October 24, 2008, 07:27:26 AM

Hre is the "Pale Rider" rig.

Ned

nedbuckshot@yahoo.com

Ace Lungger · October 24, 2008, 07:57:24 AM

:)Howdy Ned,
Those sure look nice, and I can see why they take so much time to make!
Thanks For Sharing
ACE

Marshal Will Wingam · October 24, 2008, 08:23:06 AM

I think I like the utility of the slide-on although the sewn on one looks cleaner. You came up with a good design, there, Ned.

JD Alan · October 24, 2008, 06:59:09 PM

Seems to me Clint used one on The Outlaw Joesy Wales too.

I remember reading about Bill Cody using them when I visited the museum in Cody WY.

Gun Butcher · October 24, 2008, 08:20:43 PM

Thanks Ned, those are really great. Exactly what I had in mind and I knew I had seen one somewhere. Now all I have to do is get back home and get into the shop. Thanks again. Gun Butcher

Professor Marvel · October 27, 2008, 01:07:34 AM

Quote from: JD Alan on October 24, 2008, 06:59:09 PM
Seems to me Clint used one on The Outlaw Joesy Wales too.

I remember reading about Bill Cody using them when I visited the museum in Cody WY.

If I recall correctly, I have read that Pony Express riders would carry one or two extra loaded cylinders instead of a second revolver and/or loose loads due to weight considerations. The prices charged to carry the letters were exorbinant and every ounce was accounted for . Unfortunately I have not found evidence of how they were carried.
yhs
Prof Marvel

Bryan Austin · January 05, 2009, 09:38:26 PM

Quote from: Ned Buckshot on October 24, 2008, 04:51:20 AM
I make a couple of differant versions of cylinder pouches one is stitched to the belt similar in style to what Clint used in Pale Rider. You can see it on page 161 of show us your leather post on the first page of posts.

The other is a slide on like this.

Ned
nedbuckshot@yahoo.com

How come I couldn't find these posts last year?

Sir Charles deMouton-Black · January 22, 2009, 11:42:48 PM

Finally; I've assembled three cylinders for my Pietta NMA.

I get the idea of the individual cylinder pouches, but has anyone actually made the single pouch with an insert to hold the cylinders?

Lined up, three cylinders are 2 inches tall, 4 3/4 inches long and 1 5/8 inches thick. Allowing for a one inch thick base with three pins to keep them from rattling around, that makes quite a package. It should look like an Infantry rifle ammo pouch.

I'm going to try it.

Marshal Will Wingam · January 23, 2009, 12:46:11 AM

That sounds like a good idea, Sir Charles. I'm looking forward to seeing the end result.